Chapter 5 • Verse 8

Karma Sanyasa Yoga

The Yoga of Renunciation

Sanskrit Verse

Naiva kinchit karomiti yukto manyeta tattva-vit, pashyan shrinvan sprishan jighran ashnan gacchan svapan shvasan

Translation & Meaning

The knower of truth who is united in yoga thinks 'I do nothing at all' — even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, and breathing. All activities are seen as happening through the senses in their natural field, not through the true Self.

Key Teachings

  • The realized person sees the ego as non-doer
  • All activities belong to the instruments, not the Self
  • True knowledge dissolves the sense of personal authorship

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